The 128th IOC Session took place from July 30 – August 3, 2015, in

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at the

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. The host city for the 2022 Winter Olympics and the

2020 Winter Youth Olympics The 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games (german: Olympische Jugend-Winterspiele 2020; french: Jeux olympiques de la jeunesse d'hiver de 2020; it, Giochi olimpici giovanili invernali del 2020; rm, Gieus olimpics da giuvenils d'enviern 2020), offic ...

were elected during the 128th IOC Session on July 31, 2015.

Bidders

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and

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placed bids to host the 128th IOC Session. Kuala Lumpur bid to host the

125th IOC Session The 125th IOC Session took place at the Buenos Aires Hilton in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 7 to 10 September 2013. On 7 September, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) elected Tokyo as the host city of the 2020 Summer Olympic ...

which took place in 2013, but they lost out to

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. Lima's bid to host the IOC Session was ruled out by the evaluation report which resulted in Kuala Lumpur becoming the host city. Lima later hosted the 131st IOC Session two years after Kuala Lumpur hosted the meeting.

2022 Winter Olympics host city election

The host city of the 2022 Winter Olympics was elected during the 128th IOC Session. Bids for the games were due to the IOC in 2013. In 2014, the IOC decided that Almaty and

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(as Oslo withdrew its bid), would become candidate cities, a year before the host city was elected.

Votes results

2020 Winter Youth Olympics host city election

The host city of the

was also chosen during the same IOC session. The two candidate cities,

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, Switzerland, and

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, were shortlisted in early December.

Votes results

Other agendas

New sports

Participants of session have considered the sports to be added to the

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program. A new shortlist of eight sports were unveiled on June 22, 2015. These sports include

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softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

bowling Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). The term ''bowling'' usually refers to pin bowling (most commonly ten-pin bowling), thou ...

, karate,

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s, sport climbing,

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, surfing, and wushu. The federations of the eight sports made their presentations in

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on August 7–8, 2015. In September 2015, organisers will recommend one or more of the sports to the

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for inclusion in 2020 Olympic program, with the final decision in August 2016.

Recognition of South Sudan

The IOC approved

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's inclusion as a full member of the Committee, allowed the country to participate in

Rio 2016 ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...

under its national flag. The IOC code for South Sudan Olympic Team is SSD.

References

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Bidders

2022 Winter Olympics host city election

Votes results

2020 Winter Youth Olympics host city election

Votes results

Other agendas

New sports

Recognition of South Sudan

See also

References